Being the news photographer that I am I hit the road this morning around 9am to see how the storm was lashing our area. Thankfully it wasn't causing major damage from what I saw.

What I mainly found today in my travels around East Sac, American River Drive, Land Park, Greenhaven/Pocket area, downtown and midtown was leaves and limbs in yards and streets, standing water from plugged storm drains, bark stripped from trees and the wonderful smell of trees (kind of like that Christmas-smell).

At 10am, I saw this at L & 26th:

In the Land Park area, around 10:30am, I came upon these two scenes just off Riverside in Land Park:

This was a typical scene along some areas of Freeport along Land Park:

After lunch, I caught this in the Commons area close to CSUS. The guilty tree was being shredded:

I was ready to call it quits photo-wise until I a telephone call. I'm on call this week with the Sac-Sierra Chapter of the Red Cross to respond to incidents of people needing assistance with shelter, food and clothing after a disaster. I responded to a duplex that had a huge tree that split in the front yard. The structure was deemed unsafe in case gravity caused the tree to create more chaos.

And this was going along Land Park Drive - people begin to clean up:

And folks heading home probably feeling they should be piloting a boat along Land Park Dr: 

Clearing storm drains and raking in East Sac around 5:40pm:

A major plug along Stockton Blvd in front of UC Davis Medical Center around 6pm:

And around 6:15pm, this welcome site:

Photos | Kati Garner